Tough Couple of days

Hi all. It's been a tough couple of days. I went in for blood work on Monday and decided to stay for fluids. My blood results came back while I was still there and my white counts had bottomed out. I got a Neupagin(sp?) shot that day and went back on Tuesday for another. Wednesday morning I woke up with terrible pain in my left shoulder - and when I went in for my third Neupagin shot, I told Debbie about it. Dr Welt had just left but she said if it was any worse, I should see him on Thursday. On Thursday, my shoulder had bright red hot patches on the surface and I was running a temp. Additionally, my counts were not coming back up - even with the fourth shot - so they decided to do blood cultures and wanted me to go to the hospital for IV antibiotics. I asked them to let me go home with some oral antibiotics - which they agreed to do as long as I wasn't alone and I agreed to go to the hospital asap if I got any worse. I also had a shoulder xray to see if i had any infection. Carol very willingly came and stayed overnight with me. (gotta love her, right?? I sure do)

Then today Carol and I went to the clinic and had another Neupagin shot and blood drawn and then to see the orthopedic doc about my shoulder and he stuck a big long needle into my shoulder but HURRAY nothing was in there. I called the clinic and my counts are back to NORMAL - DOUBLE HURRAY :)

Now I can go to Tom and Cheryl's wedding today and have a good weekend with my family. WOOHOO.

Thanks for thinking about me and for all the prayers.

Love you all - B